All Periods APUSH Dates

1492

Columbus’ first voyage

1492–1588

Spanish Domination

1607

Jamestown

1620

Mayflower Compact

1675

King Philip’s War

1676

Bacon’s Rebellion

1680

Pueblo Revolt

1692

Salem Witch Trials

1754–1763

Seven Years’ War

1763

Proclamation of 1763

1765

Stamp Act

1770

Boston Massacre

1773

Boston Tea Party

1775–1783

Revolutionary War

1776

Declaration of Independence

1783

Treaty of Paris

1786

Shays' Rebellion

1787

Constitutional Convention

1788

Washington’s Election

1791

Bill of Rights

1798

XYZ Affair

1798

Alien & Sedition Acts

1800

Jefferson’s Election

1800–1850

Market Revolution

1803

Louisiana Purchase

1812–1815

War of 1812

1816–1824

Era of Good Feelings

1820

Missouri Compromise

1823

Monroe Doctrine

1820s

Sectionalism

1828

Jackson’s Election

1830

Indian Removal Act

1832

Nat Turner’s Rebellion

1832

Nullification Crisis

1830–1850

Manifest Destiny

1838–1839

Trail of Tears

1845

Annexation of Texas

1845–1848

Mexican-American War

1848

Seneca Falls Convention

1850

Compromise 1850 / Fugitive Slave Law

1852

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

1854

Bleeding Kansas & Kansas-Nebraska Act

1857

Dred Scott Case

1860

Lincoln’s Election

1861–1865

Civil War

1862

Homestead Act

1867

Purchase of Alaska

1869

Transcontinental Railroad

1870–1900

Gilded Age

1876

Little Bighorn

1877

Compromise of 1877 & Reconstruction Ends

1886

Haymarket Square Riot

1887

Dawes Act

1890

Wounded Knee

1890

Sherman Antitrust Act

1890s

Populism / Segregation / Imperialism

1893

World’s Columbian Exposition

1894

Pullman Strike

1896

“Cross of Gold” speech

1896

Plessy v. Ferguson

1898

Annexation of Hawaii

1898

Spanish-American War

1900–1920

Progressive Era

1903

Wright Brothers

1917

US enters WWI

1920

Women’s Suffrage

1920s

First Red Scare

1920s

Prohibition

1929

Stock Market Crash

1932

Bonus Army March

1939

WWII starts in Europe

1941

Attack on Pearl Harbor

1944

D-Day

1945

Atomic Bomb dropped

1945–1991

Cold War

1947

Truman Doctrine

1950–1953

Korean War

1950s

McCarthyism

1954

Brown v. Board of Ed.

1955

Montgomery Bus Boycott

1957

Sputnik

1962

Cuban Missile Crisis

1963

March on Washington

1963

JFK assassinated

1964

Civil Rights Act

1968

Tet Offensive

1969

Moon landing

1972

Watergate break-in

1973

Roe v. Wade

1979

Iranian hostage crisis

1980

Reagan elected

1989

Cold War ends

1991

Persian Gulf War

1994

Contract with America

1995

Oklahoma City Bombing

2000

Bush v. Gore

2001

9/11 Attacks

2008

Great Recession

2008

Obama elected

2011

Affordable Care Act